Improvement in refrigerators



W. DREUSIKE. Refrigerator.

Patented Dec. 9, 1879.

WITNESSES INVENTPR ATTORNEY N PETERS, PHOTO'LITHOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON. n c.

U ITED STATES PATENT Genre-E.

VVILLIAM- DREUSIKE OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

l M E R O V EM. E N-T IN RE F R! G ELR-ATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 22234573, dated December 9, 1879; application file d' September 17, 1879.

\ To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM DREUSIKE, of Terre Haute, in the county of Vigo, and in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators and Refrigerating-Houses and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the tion, and provided at its lower edge with a gutter; also, in the combination of the ceiling-section with gutter, hingingrod, cord, pulley, and balancing-weight.

My invention further consists in the con-' struction of the ceilingsection of double thickness with an interposed non-conductor, a top covering, gutter, and connecting-hooks; also, in the combination of the cooling-chamber, icechamber with interior walls, air-flue, solid ceiling, ice-rack, and adjustable sectional ceilings, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth. i

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of a refrigerating store-room embodying my invention. A Figs. 2 and 3 arerletail views of parts thereof.

0 represents the walls of the house-or building, made double and non-conductin g in any suitable manner. The building is by an icerack, H, divided into an upper or iceroom, A, and a lower or cooling room, B.

The ice-rack H is supported upon joists Gr,

laid upon timbers E, which may be supported 1 upon posts, or otherwise arranged, according to the structure of the building. Below the ice-rack H is a suspended ceiling to catch the drip from the ice above. This ceilingis made in sections I I, each section supported at its upper end bya rod, J, and having a gutter,

K, formed along its lower edge to carry.off

the drip to the waste-pipe. Each section of the ceiling is held in an inclined position by means of weights L and cords M, passing over pulleys N, suspended by straps or hooks 0 from the joists Gr.

The timbers E are protected from the drip by means of galvanized iron or other cover ings P, interposed between said timbers and the joists G.

The ice-room A is provided with a ceiling, j, which is double and packed, or with paper between. Within the ice-room are interior double walls,'d, forming a warm-air opening or flue, e, from the cooling-room to near the top of the ice-room, letting the warm air enter the ice-room immediately below the ceiling f. c c are beveled slats in the inner walls, (1, at the bottom.

The ice-room is also rovided with sectional suspended ceiling I, hung upon rods J, provided with gutters K, and suspended by straps or rods 1). The ceiling 1 is immediately below the entrance at the top from the warm-air flue c, and is intended to catch the drip from condensation on the top ceiling, f, of the ice-room. In a large room the center of the sectional ceiling I is intended to rest on the ice and lower with it as the ice melts, the opposite sides being supported by the rods J.

In the construction of the sectional ceilings each section is composed of two thicknesses of tonguc-and-grooved ceiling -boards, '5 i, with paper or other non-conductor 7' between them. The top is covered with roofing-felt, galvanized iron, or zinc, k, to carry oft the drip emptying into the gutter K or K, which leads to the main discharge-pipe.

At the upper edge the ceiling-section is single, the under portion being cut away to extend beyond the supporting-rod J, and it has hooks 9 attached to it by screws to pass over said rod J.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a refrigerator or re frigerating -house, of an ice-room above, a cooling-room below, a separating ice -rack forming the 'divisionbetween the two, and sec tional ceiling under the ice-rack and top ceiling, each section being hungat one edge on a rod and adjustably supported in an inclined position, and provided along its lower edge B, ice-chamber A,witl1 interior walls, d, air-flue witha gutter, substantially as and for the pur- 0, solid ceiling f, ice-rack H, and the adjustposes herein set forth. able sectional suspended ceilings I I, all con- 2. The combination of the rod J, ceilingstructed and arranged substantially as and for section I, with gutter K, cord M, pulley N, and the purposes herein set forth.

weight L, substantially as and for the pur- In testimony that I claim the foregoing I poses herein set forth. have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of 3. The ceiling-section composed of the double June, 1879.

thicknesses i i, with non-conductor j between WM. DREUSIKE.

them, top covering, 7:, gutter K, and hooks g, l Witnesses:

substantially as shown and described. JOHN B. MEYER,

4. The combination of the cooling-chamber J As. THos. MOORE. 

